PREFACE TO THE SMARTGEOAPPS WORKSHOP AT THE GEOSPATIAL WEEK 2019
G. Agugiaro 1, *, M. Koeva 2, T. Wei 3, F. Biljecki 41 3D Geoinformation group, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, g.agugiaro@tudelft.nl 2 ITC, University of Twente, The Netherlands, m.n.koeva@utwente.nl
3 Department of Urban Informatics, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, China, tuwei@szu.edu.cn 4 School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore, filip@nus.edu.sg
Commission IV, WG IV/10
The “SmartGeoApps – Advanced Geospatial Applications for Smart Cities and Regions” workshop was organised in 2019 for the first time within the GeoSpatial Week series workshops. The overall goal of the SmartGeoApps workshop was to showcase how (geo)data can be used to foster the development of applications for Smart and Cities and Regions. The focus was therefore less on data acquisition phase per se, and more on data integration, harmonisation and usage in order to solve challenging problems at urban and regional scale. Particular (but not exclusive) attention was paid to semantic 3D city models, as their role as hubs of heterogeneous and integrated (spatial and non-spatial) information is steadily growing worldwide. Another goal of the event was to support sustainable, resilient and smart future cities. Authors were invited to submit papers dealing with:
• Systems of territorial intelligence
• Systems for city intelligent management (building, transportation, energy, etc.) • 3D modelling of cities
• Monitoring systems • Mobility and transportation
• Smart-city-wide telecommunications infrastructure • Urban knowledge engineering
• Urban dashboard design and implementation • New style of urban decision-making systems • Geo-visualization devoted to urban problems • Disaster management systems.
The workshop was hosted by the University of Twente, The Netherlands, in parallel with a number of other related geospatial workshops. The event was held as a single-day single-track workshop with oral presentations and poster sessions.
Eight full papers were originally submitted for a double-blind review process. Members of the scientific committee read and commented thoroughly on the papers, and authors received feedback from two or sometimes three reviewers. As a result of the review process, 2 papers were accepted for inclusion in the ISPRS Annals and 4 in the ISPRS Archives, while remaining contributions were either rejected or withdrawn.
Additionally, 31 abstracts were submitted for abstract-based review. As a result, 11 were accepted to be extended to full papers for inclusion in the ISPRS Archives, while the remaining contributions were either rejected or withdrawn.
As chairs of the SmartGeoApps workshop, we would like to express our gratitude to the authors for their contributions and to all reviewers of the scientific committee who actively contributed to evaluating the manuscripts with their excellent job. The latter are listed in alphabetical order in the following:
• Gonzalo Besuievsky, University of Girona, Spain • Adriano Bisello, Eurac Research, Italy
• Piergiorgio Cipriano, Dedagroup Public Services, Italy
• Volker Coors, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany • Claire Ellul, University College London, UK
• Zhixiang Fang, Wuhan University, China
• Jimeno A. Fonseca, Future Cities Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Singapore • Luca Giovannini, Dedagroup Public Services, Italy
• Thomas Kolbe, Technical University Munich, Germany • Hugo Ledoux, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Stephan Nebiker, University of Applied Sciences and Arts North-Western Switzerland, Switzerland • Francesca Noardo, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Alexandru Nichersu, European Institute for Energy Research, Germany • Jan Peters-Anders, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
• Francesco Pirotti, University of Padova, Italy
• Jantien Stoter, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands • Chen Zhong, King’s College London, UK
• Sisi Zlatanova, University of New South Wales, Australia.
* Corresponding author
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume IV-2/W5, 2019 ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019, 10–14 June 2019, Enschede, The Netherlands
